| Show ON RELIGIOUS TOPICS H 11 W V I speak what I do know when whon I say SR that thal there la is nothing which brings men back from the desert detert of sandy Mild and arid speculation nothing which brings a man In again to the shore chore from the tho cheerless ocean of ot doubt nothing which gives Ilves us UI such faith and certainty na as laying aside aulde all reasoning and engaging engagIng In ing In the practical 1 work of ot the gospel I know that there is restorative Influence ence In that work I know knol that what whatever whatever ever doubts I may rue ma have hae once let my m heart and hand Join Joins together in work Irk workIng WorkIng Ing InK with men for their salvation and Id I my m doubts disappear I know in whom whon I believe I know knost the work to which I nm ant appointed and the ilie sweetest t that I ever eer had of or God came to me In the theart act art of ot laboring for my fellow men Tha Th mot most glorious views I 1 ever eer had of ot otman man Interior life and of ot essential dl di divine vine truths were ministered to me when I was waa working for tor the salvation of others W V Horley lorle lion How Ho dark are ue the paths In which Gods faithful ones are compelled to tread How fierce tierce the fires In which the pure gold f their th lr principle Is I test tested tested ed nut But ut when hen the th patient feet teel have hae plodded through the darkness the glor glorIs in Is the brighter for tor the gloom and the gold is II I burnished by b the flame Into a II beauty unparalleled before Not ot In caprice of power nor lessening of ot love loe I does the Father permit the trial of the child but we wrestle Heatle with the angel In Inthe Inthe the dark that with of ot Iron we may maj be the stronger stron r at the breaking brea Ing of the day da Harpers Bazar From th the beginning be of ot the tho day till tid nightfall we need steed to eay ay ra not nol to our neighbor but to ourselves forbear and again forbear do we regret silence allence often otten mutt mut we e lament speech h hOur Our hasty hut words word II Impetuously spoken linger In wounded memory and leave leavean scars etar an Ofte O e questions It if affection Is It again the Ule sime ume atur atter an unjust or bru brutal brutal brutal tal attack has flawed n Iter Its it Ie perfect arc ar In Inthe Inthe Inthe the home realm where relatives meet In the unrestraint of dally daily intercourse and the social racial guard Is down there thore Is i always aiwa occasion for tor the exercise exer IPe of ot for bearance Walt Watt a II little repress reNt the tho impulse to censure drive back the stir spir spirit it that Is I bitter blUer and bristling and wear ear earthe the look and pl the language of ot amiability Recall the assertion of ot a II certain old Rook Book that better t Is Ie ho he that ruleth his spirit than he that a 1 city ell If It the small Ion son or daughter has hIS transgressed tran Te sed forbear reproof until as u assured aured that the error was Intentional that the accident was wu due not to Inno lana Innocent Innocent cent misunderstanding but to willful mischief If It the Ibe friend fall to todo do what hat In given en cIrcumstances circumstance Is I of ot her forbear the unkind reflection Mil Knit give her hir the benefit of ot charity charlt Most Moil I wrongs wrong right themselves ant and most mo t frictions lle are smoothed If It only forbear forbearance forbearance ance directs direct the domestic engineering I |
